Big girl cup for big girl, Mary Clare

It’s hard to believe that McCanless completely dropped her bottle and refused anything but her sippy cup at 10 months, but looking back, I realized that I started giving her a sippy cup to “play” with pretty early. So, today McCanless and I picked out a brand new pink and purple sippy cup with handles just for Mary Clare. (guess who chose those colors?)

Well, that and the fact that Mary Clare now goes completely nuts when she sees a sippy cup because a certain big sister was giving her sips of juice from her sippy cup without telling mommy. I was beginning to wonder why she would kick and cry and pitch fits as I fixed cups of juice for McCanless… I’m only hoping that Mary Clare will learn to like the watered down version of apple juice after tasting the real thing! We’ll see!

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Here was her first attempt! No problems with drinking out of the spout…thanks to previous secret practice sessions with big sister. She just couldn’t figure out how to keep the juice flowing. (holding the cup up)

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When all else fails…

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By the way, Mommy and McCanless had a discussion about Mary Clare ONLY using her OWN pink and purple sippy cup and ONLY when Mommy was helping. Mary Clare is “not allowed” to use big girl cups any longer.

5 Comments

George Atkins  on January 28th, 2008

Hey Mrs. Pennington! I am glad to see Mary Clare is now 7 months old. God has blessed Mary Clare and your family. I have been praying for her health since last year. The Lord has pulled through for her.

P.S.- We miss you at THA!!!!!!!

George Atkins  on January 28th, 2008

Hey Mrs.P.! I am praying for you and Mary Clare. The Lord has really blessed you.
P.S.- We miss you at THA!!!!

kate (favorite aunt)  on January 28th, 2008

HA! HA! McCanless is such a nut!! AND.. Mary Clare is just getting bigger & bigger everyday, I can’t wait to squeeze her!! 🙂 Give the girls a BIG hug & kisses for me!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

Erica May  on January 29th, 2008

That is one of the cutest things I have seen! How smart she is!! I will have to try a sippy cup for Emerson soon! We can’t wait to see you guys!(outside of MUSC!)
Love,
Erica

yarbroughs  on January 30th, 2008

who are those beautiful children with McCanless at the rodeo